Louisiana Purchase
Vocabulary Words
Oregon Trail
Causes of the Civil War
Important Events
100
The president that purchased the land.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to his person asking him to explore the new land.
Who is Meriwether Lewis?
100
The people on the Oregon Trail traveled by what
What is a wagon?
100

The North and the South had issues over _______, which led to the Civil War.

What is slavery?

100

The name given to the removal of Cherokees from their homelands to what is now Oklahoma by President Andrew Jackson and Congress.

What is Trail of Tears?

200
The land was purchased from this country
What is France?
200

All of the events of Westward Expansion would lead to violence between the North and the South, which was called the __________.

What is the Civil War?

200
Name the reason people were traveling the trail
What is better soil, and more land?
200

The territory that the U.S. claimed after the Mexican-American War.

What is the Mexican Cession: California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming?

200
The 1820 ruling that admitted Missouri as a slave state.
What is Missouri Compromise?
300
The amount of money the land was purchased for.
What is 15 million dollars?
300

Places that Indians/Natives were sent to after being removed from their land.

What are reservations?

300
Name three hardships the poeple faced while travleing
What is disease, weather, rivers, mountains, accidents, and Indians?
300
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

300

During the California Gold Rush, miners, also known as 49ers, were forced to carry these items due to lack of law enforcement.

What are weapons (guns and knives)?

400
The year the land was purchased
What is 1803?
400

The name of the woman who helped them explore the Louisiana Territory

Who is Sacagawea?

400
Pioneers made an impact on the Native Americans. Name two ways this happened.
What is trading, diseases, and forcing them off their land?
400

The treaty that ended the War of 1812.

What is the Treaty of Ghent?

400
When Great Britain and America went to war over land it was called ___________.
What is War of 1812?
500
During the time of the Louisiana Purchase, United States was still having trouble with what country trying to claim part of North America.
What is Great Britian?
500
When the states and the people decide for themselves.

What is popular sovereignty?

500

Explain Manifest Destiny.

What is the belief that America should expand its limits and move west?

500
Under the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Kansas became a __________; this led to violence between people in Kansas, which was called "________________".

What is free state; "Bleeding Kansas"?

500
The Compromise of 1850 did these things.

What is enact the Fugitive Slave Act, admit California as a free state, and let Utah and Mexico decide for themselves?

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